COURSE UNIT TITLE

: APPROXIMATIONS FOR ELIMINATING THE TEACHING DIFFICULTIES IN PHYSICS EDUCATION

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FMF 6069 APPROXIMATIONS FOR ELIMINATING THE TEACHING DIFFICULTIES IN PHYSICS EDUCATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Physics Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SERAP KAYA ŞENGÖREN

Offered to

Physics Teacher Education

Course Objective





Determining the learning difficulties in undergraduate physics education, and learning and applying the approximations for eliminating the learning difficulties.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   For the learning difficulties in undergraduate physics education and the approximations eliminating the learning difficulties; be able to define and describe them,
2   Be able to compare them,
3   Be able to apply them,
4   Be able to analyise them,
5   Be able to evaluate them.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Learning difficulties/alternative student ideas in the undergraduate physics education program
2 Importance of conceptional teaching in physics education
3 Methods for determining the learning difficulties/alternative student ideas
4 Methods for determining the learning difficulties/alternative student ideas
5 Preparing three-tyre scales for determining the learning difficulties
6 Interwiev method for determining the learning difficulties
7 Conceptional change papers for eliminating the teaching difficulties
8 Conceptional change papers for eliminating the teaching difficulties
9 Conceptional change papers for eliminating the teaching difficulties
10 Concept analysing tables and concept maps for eliminating the teaching difficulties
11 Concept analysing tables and concept maps for eliminating the teaching difficulties
12 Concept maps for eliminating the teaching difficulties
13 Concept maps for eliminating the teaching difficulties
14 Experiment and other methods for eliminating the teaching difficulties
15 Final exam.

Recomended or Required Reading

1.Phsics Teaching, YÖK-World Bank MEGP Teacher Training Serie, Ank,1997.
2.Related literature

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods





Cooperative study, discussion, ask and answer, lecturing, home work, project.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE STT * 0.40 + FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) STT * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods


Studies in the term, consist of homework and presentations.The final exam is classical.



Assessment Criteria

qualifications of homework and presentations, on-time delivery and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

attendance is mandatory

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)



serap.kaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

updated every term

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 5 65
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 8 5 40
Preparing presentations 8 5 40
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 190

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.254534454
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